When William Alfred Knight was born on 25 December 1902, in Key West Township, Coffey, Kansas, United States, his father, James Franklin Knight, was 39 and his mother, Eleanor Lena Bowlin, was 22. He married Esther Blanche Grover on 24 May 1924. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Ottumwa, Coffey, Kansas, United States in 1930 and Lincoln Township, Coffey, Kansas, United States in 1940. He died on 26 July 1972, in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Key West Cemetery, Lebo, Coffey, Kansas, United States.
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English: status or occupational name from Middle English knight ‘retainer, attendant’ (Old English cniht ‘boy, youth, lad)’. The specialized feudal sense ‘a high-ranking tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier’ is not known to have ever given rise to the surname, although it is not out of the question that it may occasionally have been used as a nickname, perhaps for someone who played the part of an armed knight in a local pageant.
Irish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the knight’. See also McKnight .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesThe Emporia Gazette Emporia, Kansas 27 July 1972 (Thursday) William Knight Dies Lebo – William A. Knight, formerly of Lebo, died Wednesday afternoon in Memorial Hospital in Topeka. Mr. Knight had …
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